Summary

Dal556 was deployed in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to explore the Orphaline Channel region as a potential habitat of the endangered North Atlantic right whale, as well as other baleen whales. This mission also provides reconnaissance for survey vessels and planes searching for right whales in the region.

This page provides a simple visualization of quasi-live CTD data. As this is my personal site this page may not always function properly or be kept up to date. See the following websites (from the professionals) for more details about this deployment:

WHOI DCS website - real-time whale detections, glider diagnostics, and more from Mark Baumgartner at WHOI

OTN website - glider diagnostics from the OTN glider team

Plots

Plots generated at: 2017-06-30 10:43:35

Latest glider timestamp: 2017-06-30 08:42:15

Using CTD data from: http://gliders.oceantrack.org/data/live/dal556_sci_water_live.csv

Plotting all 31341 points will take too long. Plotting every 3 points instead…

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Notes

There is rudimentary processing here, which includes conversion from conductivity to salinity, and density calculation (from salinity, raw pressure, and raw temperature data). I have also added some simple quality control that removes spurious temperature and salinity values recorded at the surface. Note that the axes limits (i.e. colour bars) are determined automatically so one should exercise caution if comparing these sections between deployments.

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